Will there be an Outer Banks Season 2?
On Friday, July 24, Outer Banks was renewed for Season 2 by Netflix. “Outer Banks has been renewed for Season 2!” Netflix tweeted, along with a poster for the new season.
This renewal came just over three months after the show debuted on Netflix, where it spent multiple weeks on the top 10 charts.
With debut seasons of its shows, the streaming service tends to wait at least a month before making any decisions about renewal. This allows them to look at the data and see how popular a show is and how many viewers watched to the end. They then weigh this against how much the series costs to produce before making a decision about the show’s future. However, during the coronavirus lockdown, the streamer his been slower to renew its shows, perhaps explaining why Outer Banks fans have had to wait this long.
So far, a release date has not been announced. Usually, viewers may expect a show to return about a year after the previous episodes came to Netflix. However, this may depend on whether the show is able to restart filming soon or whether Covid-19 will cause delays to shooting.
In the lead up to the official announcement of Outer Banks Season 2, its cast and crew have been teasing what we might expect from their characters in the future.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the season finale of Outer Banks
At the end of Outer Banks’ first run of episodes, John B. (played by Chase Stokes) and Sarah (Madelyn Cline) are on a boat on the way to the Bahamas and the treasure that has been taken there.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Stokes, who is quarantined together with Cline and other cast members of Outer Banks, said: “Now we know where the gold is, so I think it’s an exciting time to [ask] what are John B. and Sarah really going to get into now? We thought it was dark and dirty then but it’s gonna get real.”
Cline, meanwhile, teased a difficult season for Ward Cameron (Charles Esten) after John B. revealed via radio that Ward killed his father. She said: “That’s one of my big questions, what’s going to happen with the Camerons?
“All of these puppet strings Ward has kind of been playing are now coming loose and he doesn’t really have control over his world anymore. I feel like there definitely will be consequences for Ward or Rafe, so that will be interesting to see how that plays out.”
Outer Banks is streaming now on Netflix.
